I got your address from

The phone book at the library

Wandered in looked you up and you were there

Weird that you've been living maybe

2 miles away for the best part of 20 years

You must be what in your early forties now

If I remember

You were born in June or was it May

Eisenhower was the president

Although it may have been JFK

Years of silence

Not enough who could blame us giving up

Above the quiet there's a buzz

That's me trying

You still working in that store on ventura

You still going with no that's not fair

I know I haven't been the very best of dads

I'll hold my hand up there

The reason that I'm

Writing is that I'd like for us to meet

Get a little daughter dad action going soon

We can put things behind us

Eat some pizza drink some beer

You still see your sister Lemli

Bring her too

Years of silence not enough

Who could blame us giving up

Above the quiet there's a buzz

That's me trying

But I don't want to talk

About any of that bad stuff

Why I missed out on your

Wedding and your high school graduation

I'd like to explain but I can't

So let's keep things neutral

Stick to topics that won't bug us

How 'bout this

Let's choose a book

And we'll read it before we meet

Then we can sit down at a restaurant

Have a look at the menu

And talk about it while we eat

See if we never had a problem

Then that's what life would be like

Easy

Uncomplicated

Cool

So let's just pretend that the past didn't happen

I don't really like thriller as well

I don't want to know if I've got grandchildren

No need to tell me where I went wrong

I don't want to know

What happened in your thirties

You wanna try 'cold mountain'

Or is that too long

Years of silence not enough

Who could blame us giving up

Above the quiet there's a buzz

That's me trying it's me trying

That's me trying

Above the quiet there's a buzz